San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-12
BITS OF BIOGRAPHY.

Ex-MAyor Carter Harrison, OF Chica-
go, is at Yokohama.
Archibald Forbes, the war cores
pondent, Is hopeless invalid.
Mrs. John Bigelow. IL is said, can en-
terrain 1000 people stiably.
Ex-Seoretary Manning has become q
householder in New York.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, who has been
Ill at Pittsfield, Mass, is engaged upon
her first novel.
ArchdeaoOn Farrar has nearly ready
for publication q volume on Everyday
Christian Life"
$500, 900 year is paid to British spies
on the Irish in America.
The cobblers OF Nstick, Mass, are
about to erect monument to the late
Vice President Henry Wilson.
Mr. b. l.. Farjeon has written Christ
mas story, the scene of which is laid in
London and In Paris under the COM
mune.
A story is current that Mary Ander-
son, Edwin Booth and Lawrence Bar
rett will make up travelling combins-
ton for next season.
Susan Coolidge. Mrs. Preston and
Charles Egbert Craddock are the Amer
loan contributors to the new English
magazine ATLANTA"
Gen. Paine OF the Volunteer has long
list of Invitations from Boston clubs that
want to entertain him within q CASTRO
nomic inch of his life.
Edward Eggleston. after ten years
n
romance for the Century. to be called
"The Graysons; a story of Illinois,"
The grave of Charlotte Temple in New
York Is visited by more tourists than any
other sepulcbre, with the single excep-
ton of Gen. Grants. 1t is in Trinity
Church-yard.
Joseph SellwOOd has made $500. 600
from his contract to take the ore out Of
an iron mine at GogebiC, Wis. He
started penniless three years ago and
now makes $250,0O0 year by sublet-
ting his ten year contract.
The fishermen of Bergen, Sweden,
have just presented 10 Mile. Sigrid
Arnold son, the new Swedish singer, as
token OF their appreciation of her art,
a fifty foot whale, which they caught on
the coast the day after her first concert
Among the heaviest taxpayers of New
York are John Jacob Aston, 1926, 040;
William Aston, $l70, 009: estate OF w. Ii.
Vanderbilt, Sl7l ,l24; estate Of Robert
GeOtt, $l07 1896; New Y ork Contra, S343,
6l3, and the Consolidated Gas company
S223, $40.
The last presidential visit to Chicago
previous to that OF Mr.. Cleveland was
that OF President Arthur In August,
1888, after he had opened the Southern
Cotton Exposition at Louisville, KY.
He was accompanied on that trip by
Attorney General Folger, Secretaries
Lincoln and Gresham and Senator
Bayard.
A boy of II years, unaocompanied,
was among last weeks arrivals at Castle
Garden from Germany; also an ll-year-
old girl, who arrived alone on Thursday
and was still awaiting her parents on
Saturday.
Edmond Montgomery, an African
chief of the AskaTi tribe, who was
brought to this country from Africa in
1907, died in Georgia n few days ago at
the reputed age Of l02 years, leaving q
third wife and % children.
Eleven of the seventeen presidents
were college graduates; ten of the
twenty vice presidents; nineteen out of
twenty-nine secretaries of state; and
thirty OF fortY-One associate justices of
the United States supreme court.
An OK belonging to J. X. MoGregor,
OF Wichita, Kansas, and weighing 1850
pounds, has been bought by Adam Fore
paugh for $4,000, to keep company with
his elephants. He is thought to be the
heaviest OK in the world.